2000s – Best of Decade Top 100

TOP 100 – AUGHTS

Submitted in 2009 for a RTCD Refugees Poll.  Subject to future updating to reflect 2009 releases.  Titles in blue made the ultimate consensus list. Titles in purple did not make consensus list. Disclaimer – was subject to some self-imposed quotas (director, genre, etc.)

 

1. THERE WILL BE BLOOD  [P.T. ANDERSON]
2. DOGVILLE  [LARS VON TRIER]
3. A CHRISTMAS TALE (Un Conte de Noël) [ARNAUD DESPLECHIN] 
4. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND  [MICHEL GONDRY]
5. MULHOLLAND DRIVE  [DAVID LYNCH]
6. CACHÉ (Hidden) [MICHAEL HANEKE]
7. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Fa yeung nin wa)  [WONG KAR-WAI] 
8. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN  [JOEL & ETHAN COEN]
9. TALK TO HER (Hable con ella) [PEDRO ALMODÓVAR]
10. ZODIAC  [DAVID FINCHER]
11. AMÉLIE (Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain)  [JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET]
12. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE [NOAH BAUMBACH]]
13. SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK  [CHARLIE KAUFFMAN] 
14. THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Das Leben der Anderen)  [FLORIAN HENCKEL VON DONNERSMARCK]
15. THE QUEEN  [STEPHEN FREARS] 
16. YOU CAN COUNT ON ME  [KENNETH LONERGAN]
17. BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! [GUY MADDIN]
18. THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS  [WES ANDERSON]
19. SIDEWAYS [ALEXANDER PAYNE]
20. FAR FROM HEAVEN  [TODD HAYNES]
21. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: AI  [STEVEN SPIELBERG]
22. 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS & 2 DAYS (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile) [CRISTIAN MUNGIU] 
23. BEFORE SUNSET  [RICHARD LINKLATER]
24. ALL THE REAL GIRLS  [DAVID GORDON GREEN]
25. ADAPTATION.  [SPIKE JONZE]
26. THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD  [ANDREW DOMINIK]
27. THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) [JULIAN SCHNABEL]
28. THE NEW WORLD  [TERRENCE MALICK] 
29. DANCER IN THE DARK  [LARS VON TRIER]
30. INLAND EMPIRE  [DAVID LYNCH]
31. PUNCH DRUNK LOVE  [P.T. ANDERSON]
32. PARANOID PARK  [GUS VAN SANT]
33. A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE [DAVID CRONENBERG]
34. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE [JONATHAN DEMME]
35. GHOST WORLD  [TERRY ZWIGOFF]
36. LOST IN TRANSLATION  [SOPHIA COPPOLA]
37. REQUIEM FOR A DREAM  [DARREN ARONOVSKY]
38. HEAD-ON  (Gergen die wand) [FATIH AKIN]
39. MILLION DOLLAR BABY  [CLINT EASTWOOD]
40. THE DARJEELING LIMITED  [WES ANDERSON]
41. KILL BILL: VOL. 2  [QUENTIN TARANTINO]
42. KINGS AND QUEEN (Rois et reine) [ARNAUD DESPLECHIN]
43. Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN  [ALFONSO CUARÓN]
44. UNBREAKABLE  [M.NIGHT SHYAMALAN]
45. CHILDREN OF MEN  [ALFONSO CUARÓN]
46. BRICK [RIAN JOHNSON]
47. THE PRESTIGE  [CHISTOPHER NOLAN]
48. 25TH HOUR  [SPIKE LEE]
49. BURN AFTER READING  [JOEL & ETHAN COEN]
50. BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN  [LARRY CHARLES]
51. THE DEPARTED  [MARTIN SCORSESE]
52. THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON [DAVID FINCHER]
53. MY WINNIPEG  [GUY MADDIN]
54. GOOD BYE LENIN!  [WOLFGANG BECKER]
55. MEMENTO  [CHRISTOPHER NOLAN]
56. FRIDAY NIGHT (Vendredi Soir)  [CLAIRE DENIS]
57. TIME OUT (L’Emploi du temps) [LAURENT CANTET] 
58. GRINDHOUSE  [ROBERT RODRIGUEZ & QUENTIN TARANTINO]
59. MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD  [PETER WEIR]
60. COLLATERAL [MICHAEL MANN]
61. THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP (La Science des rêves) [MICHEL GONDRY]
62. MICHAEL CLAYTON  [TONY GILROY]
63. LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA  [CLINT EASTWOOD]
64. WAR OF THE WORLDS  [STEVEN SPIELBERG]
65. THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU [WES ANDERSON]
66. WONDER BOYS  [CURTIS HANSON]
67. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH  [TERRENCE DAVIES]
68. KILL BILL: VOL. 1  [QUENTIN TARANTINO]
69. BAD EDUCATION (La Mala educación)  [PEDRO ALMODÓVAR] 
70. HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG  [VADIM PERELMAN]
71. BROKEN FLOWERS [JIM JARMUSCH]
72. AFTER THE WEDDING (Efter brylluppet)  [SUSANNE BIER]
73. RAISING VICTOR VARGAS  [PETER SOLLETT]
74. YI YI (aka A One and a Two) [EDWARD YANG]
75. THE AVIATOR [MARTIN SCORSESE]
76. SCHOOL OF ROCK  [RICHARD LINKLATER]
77. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY  [MIKE LEIGH]
78. BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD  [SIDNEY LUMET]
79. THE EDGE OF HEAVEN (Auf der anderen Seite)  [FATIH AKIN]
80. GONE BABY GONE  [BEN AFFLECK]
81. MARGOT AT THE WEDDING  [NOAH BAUMBACH]
82. L’ENFANT  [JEAN-PIERRE DARDENNE & LUC DARDENNE]
83. MOULIN ROUGE!  [BAZ LUHRMANN]
84. I ♥ HUCKABEES  [DAVID O. RUSSELL]
85. OLDBOY  [CHAN-WOOK PARK]
86. GOOD  NIGHT, AND GOOD  LUCK [GEORGE CLOONEY]
87. ABOUT SCHMIDT  [ALEXANDER PAYNE]
88. PANIC ROOM  [DAVID FINCHER]
89. THE PIANIST  [ROMAN POLANSKI]
90. MORVERN CALLAR  [LYNNE RAMSAY]
91. KEANE  [LODGE KERRIGAN]
92. ELEPHANT  [GUS VAN SANT]
93. CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS  [ANDREW JARECKI]
94. WAKING LIFE  [RICHARD LINKLATER]
95. MUNICH [STEVEN SPIELBERG]
96. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING  [PETER JACKSON]
97. A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (Un Long dimanche de fiancailles) [JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET]
98. GEORGE WASHINGTON  [DAVID GORDON GREEN]
99. THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS  [BRUCE MACDONALD]
100. THE INCREDIBLES [BRAD BIRD]